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Photo of four men standing on the banks of the Schuylkill River on the last day of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Last gasp of the Schuylkill Interceptor, December 20, 1956

Black-and-white diagram showing streets and the Little Tacony Creek

Frankford Creek Watershed: A historical overview of the Philadelphia section

Dobson FLP

Requiem for a stream: A brief history of Dobson’s Run

Black-and-white image shows a trolley car emerging from a building with men standing alongside

Filling Low Land: A Story of Ash-Dumping in the Wingohocking Creek Watershed

Dauphin and Sydenham car crash, Jan. 17, 1978

Captain Sewer and Michael Nutter, 1998

Captain Sewer and Michael Nutter, 1998

Black-and-white photo of privies, waterless wells used to collect human waste

Privies, Emerald Street, 1919